[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> << Discount 95% of what I'm saying. I'm tired, cranky, and cynical over the
> warmongering, the jingoistic press, the mosques being vandalized/marched on,
> the fact that the US government is using the fear in the air to grab at
> power... >>
>
> I'm sorry, that's not just "cranky" or "cynical", that's rather overstated
> and wrong-headed. I'm not aware of any warmongering, the press has for the
> most part been quite restrained (at least the press I've been paying
> attention to; primarily the NY Times, BBC, CNN, and MSNBC)
Hmm, all the talk about "nuking them back to the stone age" really
doesn't bother you at all, does it? What exactly would qualify as
warmongering to you?
> the US government
> doesn't have to "grab at" power since it already possesses quite a bit of it,
Calling up the reserves, reassigning the CG to the Sec of the Navy,
congress authorizing money and authority for warlike activity... and we
still haven't put the fires out yet. What the hell would qualify as
grabbing power for you?
> What we do about terrorism is up for debate, of course. But to condemn our
> response so far as jingoistic and warmongering and a grab for power is
> nitpicking, croccodile tears, and absurdly unfair.
What's unfair is using a cranky message of mine about the shallow,
hollow response to grief by using staged and orchestrated media events
and presenting them as spontaneous reactions of a hurt nation to vent
your own feels at the matter and wrap yourself in the flag of
reasonablness while painting me with a vicious brush. Thanks.
-j-
